Police: Arrest made in gun Pa. boy took to school

PHILADELPHIA—Police say a woman has been arrested in connection with a loaded gun brought by a boy to a north Philadelphia elementary school earlier this week.

A police spokeswoman said Wednesday that a 32-year-old woman was being charged with recklessly endangering another person and a firearms crime.

School officials said a 7-year-old boy was showing the handgun off to other students in the lunchroom at John F. Reynolds Elementary School on Monday. Other students told school police, and the boy was suspended.

Investigators told WCAU-TV that the child allegedly found the weapon under a couch in the home of the suspect, who was a neighbor.

Last week, another 7-year-old boy at a west Philadelphia charter school told a teacher that he had found a loaded gun in his backpack.